resource endowments. Over the last couple of years, industry in Ghana, dominated since independence by the manufacturing …This paper chronicles the evolution of industry in Ghana over the post-independence era from an inward over …-protected import substitution industrialization strategy of 1960-83 to an outward liberalized strategy during 1984-2000, and since 2001 …

There has been a growing conversation about the revival of Manufacturing to push back growing inequality and reduce … poverty. We discuss the pathways by which a higher share of the Manufacturing sector in GDP may bring about lower poverty … growth have, for the most part, been Manufacturing-led. We then present evidence based on cross-country panel data for low …

In this paper we determine the industry 4.0 (I4.0) readiness of eight Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs … manufacturing in the region, describe three distinct time periods of industrialization since 1990, and explain the nature of I4 … could do more to promote entrepreneurship; to diversify and grow manufacturing export markets through focused trade …

This paper evaluates the impact of Chinese import penetration on the innovation of Vietnamese manufacturing firms from … 2011 to 2015, exploiting variations in import exposure by industry specialization and instrumenting for Chinese import …